I recommend at least dual booting before then, so you can get a feel for what the alternative is capable of. You don’t want to switch, run into a hiccup, then have to decide whether to push through whatever incompatibility that is, or switch to something terrible. Work through those problems at your own pace in a dual-boot setup, and once you’re ready to ditch Windows, everything is already ready.
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Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not a problem for me, since I plan to stop using Windows in 2025.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, that’s what I actually did on my secondary computer (laptop), where I dual booted Windows 10 and openSUSE Tumbleweed, before switching entirely to openSUSE.
I am planning to do the same for my main PC, but instead of doing different partitions for each OS, I will most likely give Linux (probably openSUSE as well, but I might try Fedora Atomic this time) an entire SSD for it’s use.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah, on my desktop, I have a separate disk for Windows and Linux, and since I haven’t booted into Windows in over a year, I’ll probably repurpose it as a data drive or something (or maybe upgrade my NAS boot drive).
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Much like Chrome forced me to Firefox, Windows will force me to Linux. It is inevitable.